Basic Guide in Gathering Bolette
Reserve a non-airtight basket with cover, for example woven basket or similar is best as a gathering container. Also take a sharp knife and a brush for cleaning. Knife has to remain in the basket or to be sheathed as you walk in the forest.
Boletes has to be kept in cool, airy and dark place before taking them to the receiving points. You also have to protect boletes from stong smells.
Take the boletes off from ground by hands. Push your fingers under the stem of the mushroom, and pull the mushroom carefully from the ground. A small rotational movement helps detaching the mushroom.
Turn the mushroom in your hand so, that you can scrape the ground off from the musroom´s stem. Scrape the ground off with circular cuts.
If necessary, brush the base of a mushroom lightly. Clean the top, pipes and the top of the stem with a brush.
Collect the mushrooms in a protected vessel. Do not fill several layers of mushrooms, because they might crack or get damaged easily.
Empty the collecting basket into preserving containers. Every quality class of the mushrooms has to have their own containers. Handle the boletes always with care. Do not rinse the mushrooms with water!
Get the mushrooms into receiving points during the same day that you collect them. Collect only those mushrooms that you can be certain that you identify them correctly.
This information serves you also when you collect mushrooms for your own use.
During the best mushroom season, you may collect the mushrooms every day from the same location. During slower growing season, you may use 2-3 day intervals.
If you don't take great care in handling the mushrooms, class I mushrooms can be lowered into class II or III even in 2-3 hours after collecting.
More information about gathering the mushrooms can be asked from the staff of receiving points!
FRESH BOLETES CLASS INFORMATION FOR GATHERERS
CLASS I:
 
Boletes has to be whole, solid and without worms. Pores has to be white.
CLASS II:
 
Boletes has to be whole, solid and wormless. Pores has to be complete and yellowish or yellow.
CLASS III:
Boletes has to be sliced in half. Pores has to be green. If pores are thick, half of them has to be taken off from their edges. In a rainy day, only the stem of the bolete is to be collected in class III.
Information on all the classes:
All the mushrooms are cleaned from the ground, sand and other garbage with knife and brush as you pick them up. Do not rinse with water. Do not use plastic bags as a container. Boletes may have scrathes from squirrel, mole or snails.
If the stem and cap have been separated, the cap is identified as it's own class, the stem is always class III. Boletes has to be carried into receiving point in the same day that you gather them.
In Finland, payment of the mushrooms is always without taxes and paid in cash as you bring in the mushrooms. You may ask additional information from the receiving points.
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